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1	Negotiating environmental governance: lessons from the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements in British Columbia, Canada. Low, Margaret (Maggie) 31 August 2011 (has links) The processes used to negotiate novel forms of environmental governance being deployed in the North and Central Coast of British Columbia, known as the Great Bear Rainforest, provide useful insights into the kinds of efforts that may be required to effectively address contemporary environmental problems. Through various and complex political processes – constituted by many actors – a novel set of agreements, known as the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, arguably emerged to resolve a conflict over the management of BC’s forests, a long standing and contentious issue in the province. This thesis first examines the wider limitations of institutions of governance to effectively address environmental problems and efforts to respond to these problems, particularly by environmentalists. Second, it tells the story of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, and examines their wider implications for participants of the negotiations and more generally. Overall this thesis argues that the Great Bear Rainforest negotiations can provide instructive lessons to institutions of governance by demonstrating how deliberative processes can help ease some of the structural tensions that condition environmental conflicts in Canada. Second, First Nations in the region played a crucial role in the Great Bear Rainforest negotiations, and the outcomes of this role are likely to have significant implications for future resource conflicts in the province. Third, the role of environmentalists in decision making in British Columbia is evolving. / Graduate Great Bear Rainforest North and Central Coast Environmental Governance British Columbia Indigenous Rights Environmentalism
2	Nonhuman Neighbours: Animals, Community, and Relationships on the West Coast of British Columbia Gioreva, Viara 29 September 2015 (has links) This thesis argues that nonhuman animals are constructive of human societies by virtue of the complex relationships they form with humans, both at an individual and at a community level. This thesis also suggests that particular constructions of human/ nonhuman animal relationships fail to account for animal agency, and that the transgressions of liminal animals highlight this agency. Specifically, this thesis uses two case studies – deer in Oak Bay and bears on the Central Coast – to show how nonhuman animals can be seen as actors and as active shapers of our mixed-species social orderings and communities. This thesis argues that, rather than being passive objects who are subject to government policy and human orderings, these nonhuman animals are shaping political processes in their communities through the relationships they have formed with the humans around them. / Graduate nonhuman animals community relationships political theory new animal geographies British Columbia Oak Bay Great Bear Rainforest
3	Laws of the land: indigenous and state jurisdictions on the Central Coast Colgrove, Sarah 20 December 2019 (has links) With discussion of Indigenous laws on the rise in Canada, this thesis explores the question of law’s power: jurisdiction. In this project, I ask whether Indigenous jurisdiction is active in conflicts between Indigenous and state actors over the environment, in the context of the Heiltsuk Nation on the central coast of British Columbia. This project looks to critical legal theory for an understanding of jurisdiction. It identifies three aspects of jurisdiction that are discussed in critical legal theory and related fields: that it is technical, it is authoritative, and it is spatial. Adopting these qualities as provisional indicators of jurisdiction, it applies thefzm to three case studies of Heiltsuk (or “Haíɫzaqv”) conflicts with the state, which engage colonial law in different ways. The three case studies concern (1) herring harvest and management, which was litigated in R v Gladstone; (2) land use and forestry, which is the subject of the Great Bear Rainforest agreements; and (3) trophy hunting for bears, which is the subject of a grassroots campaign based on Indigenous law. Adopting a qualitative approach adapted from institutional ethnography, this project applies a critical jurisdictional lens to each case study, using documentary review and interviews to explore the technical, authoritative, and spatial aspects of each conflict. Ultimately, I find that expressions of Heiltsuk jurisdiction – as understood from a colonial, critical perspective – are already at play in each conflict, although this is not immediately visible from the point of view of colonial law. In the conclusion, I explore the different manifestations and strategies of Heiltsuk jurisdictional expressions, and the ways that colonial jurisdiction interacts with them. / Graduate / 2021-12-19 Law Legal Jurisdiction Legal theory Critical Theory Critical legal theory Critical legal geography Legal geography territory Constitutionalism legal authority authority aboriginal aboriginal law Indigenous Indigenous laws Indigenous legal traditions Indigenous jurisdiction Heiltsuk Central Coast Great Bear Rainforest Environmental law Natural resources Herring Bear hunt BC Legal History BC History fisheries forestry hunting
4	Evaluating attitudes towards large carnivores within the Great Bear Rainforest Leveridge, Max Carter 02 May 2019 (has links) No description available. Conservation Environmental Science Environmental Studies Environmental Management Geographic Information Science Social Research Sociology Wildlife Conservation Wildlife Management Great Bear Rainforest Canada carnivores New Ecological Paradigm ecological attitudes environmental attitudes Social Ecological Relational Values carnivore attitudes conservation management conservation policy conservation environmental science

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